Condensed Materia Medica

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Mind

Forgetfulness; dim recollection of recent events.
Weakness in the head, can scarcely think.
Slow in thought.
Dread of work.
Hates work.
Mood: changeable; sad, with thoughts of death; sad and weeping; forlorn; depressed; dejected.
Full of fear in the morning.
Solicitude concerning spiritual welfare.
Great anxiety.
Much inclined to grief.
Hesitates at trifles.
Timidity.
Fretful.
Ill humored.
Easily vexed.
Irritable.
Child impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands.
Fidgety while sitting at work.
Scientific labor fatigues him.
Thoughts of many things at night prevent sleep.
Ailments from grief.

Sensorium

Attacks of dizziness, with inclination to fall forward; feels as if drunken when rising from bed in the morning.
Dulness of the head.
Rush of blood, with feeling of heat in the head.
Vertigo; on looking upwards, in the morning on awaking; in the evening, was obliged to lie down; during and after stooping, with inclination to fall forward; venous stagnation.
Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses.
Desolate, empty feeling in the head.
Beclouded feeling in the forehead.

Inner Head

Forehead: pressure deep in; drawing; tearing; bursting.
Stinging or stitching pains in the temples.
Throbbing in the sides of the head.
Pressive pain: in the vertex; in the occiput.
Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat.
Pain as if constricted with a cord, particularly in occiput.
Pain from left temple down the side of the face to the shoulder; face distorted; left corner of mouth drawn inward and downward.
Lancinating pain in right temple.
Violent headache, with nausea, during the menses.

Outer Head

Scalp feels bruised.
Sensation as if the skin of forehead were drawn into folds.
Coldness of the scalp.
Burning on the vertex in a small spot.
Sweat on the head when walking in the open air.
Itching on the scalp.
Eczema capitis, of entire scalp, forming massive, dirty crusts, which mat the hair together; scabs sore to touch.
Bald places on the head perfectly smooth and shining.
Circumscribed bald spot on front of head covered with herpes.
Porrigo decalvans.
Hair falls out, even on the sides of the head.

Eyes

Intolerance of light; with redness of the white of the eye; hyperæsthesia of eyes, with the vertigo.
Shunning daylight usually more than gaslight; photophobia.
Light dazzles the eyes; sunlight causing lancinating pains in the eyes.
Shortsightedness.
Letters: appear double when writing; run together when reading; sees fiery zigzags around the outside of the field of vision, in the evening, with the eye open.
Flickering before the eyes.
Sees as through a mist; everything turns black before the eyes when stooping.
Tiredness of the eyes.
Pressing pain in the eyes, morning and evening.
Drawing, extending from the eye up into the head.
Stitches from the temple through the eye to inner canthus, on looking at anything white or red, or at the sun.
Smarting in the eyes, with heat in them.
Burning and aching in eyes; burning pain around the eyes.
Ulcer on the cornea, with a few small vessels running into it; with moist fissured eczematous eruptions.
Pustules on the cornea and conjunctiva, with much lachrymation.
Pustule on the cornea, or reddish appearance, with white halo around it; the corners of lids raw and bleed easily.
Arthritic ophthalmia, with contraction and irregularity of the pupils.
Lachrymation in the open air; also chronic.
Thin, acrid discharge from the eyes; pus-like discharge from the eyes.
Internal canthus: itching; burning; stitches; sore.
External canthus; sore and fissured; fissured and bleed easily.
Heat in the eyes and some pus in the canthi.
Swelling of the eyelids and lachrymal gland.
Heaviness of the eyelids; cannot open his eyes.
Lids: feel dry, rough with itching; edges inflamed or covered with scurf; agglutinated night and morning; œdematous.
Left lower lid hangs down.
Inverted lids (margins); wild hairs.
Styes on lower lid, with drawing pain -may prevent return.
On both eyes hordeola and chalazion in all stages, also wens.
Coldness over the eyes.
Twitchings beneath the eyes.

Ears

Music makes her weep.
Reverberations in the ear, even his own words and every step.
Hissing; ringing; rushing; roaring; cracking; or clucking sounds in the ears.
Violent nocturnal roaring, ears feel stuffed at times (during the full moon).
Sounds as of rolling thunder before the ears.
Cracking in the ear: when eating in the evening; on moving the jaw, but only in the morning while lying in bed; when sneezing.
Snapping as if a skin were before the ears.
At every step feels as if a valve in right ear opened and closed.
Loss of hearing, with dryness of the ears.
Acute pressure in the inner ear, like otalgia.
Stitches in the ears.
Distended capillaries on the membrane of right drum.
Both tympana covered with a white coating, but not perforated.
Lining membrane of meatus red and excoriated.
Thin, watery, offensive discharge from both ears.
Gluey, sticky discharge at the external meatus.
Pus runs out of the ear.
Bad odor from the ear.
Copper-colored nodes on the ears.
Swelling of both ears, with moist eruption behind the ears.
Eczema impetigenoides; began as a moisture behind the left ear, thence spread over the cheeks and neck.
Behind the ears: fissures; scabs.

Nose

Sense of smell too acute; cannot bear the smell of flowers.
Smell from the nose as from burned hair.
Loss of smell: with dryness of nose; with coryza.
Nosebleed: in the evening, the afternoon preceding rush of blood to the head and heat of the face; at night; in the morning; with running coryza.
Bloody mucous discharge from the nose.
Frequent discharge of thick yellowish, fetid mucus from the nose.
Purulent, fetid secretion.
Dryness of the nose.
Sneezing: on opening the eyes; either with dryness of nose or running coryza.
Stoppage of the nose, with secretion of tough badly-smelling mucus.
Coryza on getting cold.
Excoriation of the nose.
Mucus often forms hard masses or crusts, in coryza.
Dry scabs in the nose, with sore, cracked and ulcerated nostrils.
Swelling of the nose.
Red nose, with black pores.

Face

Face: pale and haggard; pale and bloated; chlorotic; flushed.
Erysipelas: of both sides of the face, with burning-stinging pain; of the cheeks, preceded by alternating chills and heat; of left cheek, after mal-application of Iodum for sore of inner nose; of face, from the smell of wood; commencing on right side and going to left.
Hemiplegia facialis (several cases).
Humid pimples on the face.
Moist eczema on the face.
Rhagades on the cheek, running like radii toward the corners of the mouth; an infiltrated spot on the cheek, is covered with dry scales.
Scabs on the face, skin dry, constipated large stools.
Freckles.
Hair of the whiskers or beard falls out.

Lower Face

Painful nodules on the lower jaw.
Upper lip: twitching; stinging; swollen; painful pimples.
Corners of mouth ulcerated.
Heaviness in the lower lip.
Formication in the lips during the menses.
Lips chapped.
Swelling of the submaxillary glands painful to touch.

Teeth

Pressing pain in the teeth, worse from touch or biting.
Drawing pain in the molars while walking in the wind.
Tearing pain, worse by warmth; renewed by going to bed.
Stinging toothache after cold drink.
Toothache, worse at night.
Painful soreness on the inner side of the gums.
Swelling of the gums and dryness of the mouth.

Tongue, etc

Taste: sour; salty; bitter; like rotten eggs.
Tongue sensitive.
Tongue coated white.
Whitish, painful ulcer on lower surface of the tongue.

Mouth

Rotten odor from the mouth and gums.
Acid, foul odor.
Breath smells like urine.
Saliva increased, much spitting.
Dryness of the mouth in the morning.

Throat

Palate: feels sore; and fauces somewhat reddened.
Violent catarrh of the fauces, with sensation as if tough food had to pass over a lump in the throat.
Constant cramp in the throat causing him to retch, as if the food would not go down.
Nightly pains in the throat, like a plug.
Ulcerative pain in the throat.
Roughness and rawness in the throat.
Hawking of phlegm.
Throat seems full of gurgling mucus.

Desires and Aversions

Appetite: good; excessive hunger, or no appetite with much thirst, or with fulness of the abdomen.
Desire for drink, without thirst.
Aversion to: meat; fish; cooked food; salt.

Eating and Drinking

Worse when hungry.
Must eat: 17, 26. After eating: 17, 19, 40; dinner: 37; boiled meat: 17. After drinking: 40. Drinking warm milk: 17. Cold drink: 10, 17.

Nausea and Vomiting

Hiccough after either one or all meals.
Eructations: sour; tasting of the food eaten; relieve the pressure in the stomach.
Rancid heart-burn after dinner.
Qualmishness: mornings and several hours after dinner.
Nausea: and vertigo; and sweat, with anxiety; like faintness, prevents sleep; with spasm in the throat; with eructation; with headache; with inclination to vomit; and sour vomiting; in the morning; after eating.
Vomiting: sour; of food.
Vomiting, purging, and icy-cold sweat, with headache.

Stomach

Sickening, painful feeling at the pit of stomach.
Pressure in the pit of stomach, night and morning.
Binding, constricting pain in gastric region.
Sensation of lump in the stomach, with constant beating, as of two hammers.
Pain in stomach: necessitates eating; better from warm milk, worse from boiled meat, worse from cold drink.
Nightly pinching pain in the stomach, and rooting pain in the chest.
Griping in the stomach, with flatulency.
Fulness in the stomach and abdomen.
Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of the food immediately after eating.
Chronic gastritis with thirst, especially after the abuse of alcoholic drinks.
Chronic catarrh of stomach, with frequent eructations.

Hypochondria

Stitches in the right hypochondrium.
Hardness in region of the liver.
Stitches in the left hypochondrium.
Burning in the left hypochondrium, internally, worse when lying on it.
Cannot bear tight clothing around the hypochondria.
Cutting, bearing down pains in the hypochondria and hips.

Abdomen

Cramp in the lower abdomen.
Colic: immediately after eating.
Griping, digging pains in the abdomen.
Pain in the belly, in the left side, when lying on the right, and vice versa.
Pain below the navel, as if the intestines were torn.
Stitches in the left side of the abdomen.
Burning pains radiating through abdomen, in gastralgia.
Abdomen distended, hard.
Accumulation of serum in the abdominal cavity.
Œdema of external abdomen.
Itching of the abdomen.
Large blisters on raised base, from navel to spine.
Rumbling in the abdomen.
Incarcerated flatus.
Pain in the inguinal regions.
Painful pressing toward the groin and anus.
Herpetic eruption in the groins.
Glandular swelling in the groins.

Stool, etc

Excessive discharge of flatus.
Stools: rarely diarrhœic and then usually painless; purging and vomiting, with icy-cold sweat; knotty, the lumps being united by mucous threads; sour-smelling; thin, scalding, light brown; brown fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and very fetid; hard, lumpy, with blood and slime.
Constipation: large, knotty feces; chronic, with hardness in region of liver; with dryness of mucous membrane of rectum and fissure of the anus.
After stool there is some mucus remaining about the anus.
Tapeworm.
Fissura ani; severe, sharp, cutting pain during stool, followed by constriction and aching for several hours, worse at night.
Protrusion of rectum, without urging to stool, as if the anus were lame.
Large hemorrhoidal tumors.
Hemorrhoids, with pain on sitting down, or on taking a wide step, as if split with a knife, also violent itching, and very sore to touch.
Hemorrhoids of the rectum, with burning rhagades at the anus.

Urine

Urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.
Frequent urination at night.
Urine: dark brown; becomes turbid and deposits a white or reddish sediment; smells sour.
Stitches or smarting in the urethra when urinating.
Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.

Male Sexual Organs

Uncontrollable sexual excitement; violent erections.
Impotence, with dislike to coition.
Want of proper sensation during coition.
Almost involuntary emission, without erection.
Nocturnal emissions, with flaccid penis.
Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and scrotum.
Hydrocele (left side), with herpetic eruption on scrotum.

Female Sexual Organs

Great aversion to coitus.
Tumor, size of an orange, right iliac fossa, also similar one in left; both hard, round, slightly movable, not painful to pressure, not producing inconvenience from weight.
Pains from left ovary through pelvis and down the thigh.
Os uteri standing backwards, can only be reached with difficulty.
Pain in the uterus when reaching high with the arms.
Bearing down pain in the uterus to the back, with weakness and sickness.
Painful pressure towards the pudenda.
Menses: too scanty and too pale; too late, with violent colic; blood sometimes dark.
During the menses: heat in abdomen; urging, pressing like labor-pains; hoarseness; lassitude and weakness.
Copious leucorrhœa, before and after the menses.
Profuse leucorrhœa, perfectly white, especially on rising from the bed in the morning weakness of the back when walking or sitting.
Leucorrhœal discharges occur in gushes day or night.
Vesicles or excoriations in the vagina.
Vagina cold.
Œdema of the pudenda.
Excoriations in perineum, vulva and between thighs.

Pregnancy

Tendency to obesity.
Nipples painful.
Cancer of the mammæ, from old cicatrices, which had remained after repeated abscesses.
Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess.

Larynx

Voice: not clear, in singing; hoarseness in the evening; chronic hoarseness.
Laryngeal region sensitive to touch.
Soreness and roughness of larynx and tickling cough.

Breathing

Respiration has dry sound.
Constriction of chest, as if about to suffocate, when falling asleep.
Suffocative attacks waken from sleep, generally after midnight, has to jump out of bed, take hold of something, and must eat something.

Cough

Cough: caused by deep inspiration; with strangling, red face, watery eyes, straining all over; loose, from tickling deep in the chest; at night.
Expectoration: salty; day and evening.

Lungs

Cramps of the chest.
Pains in the chest.
Pain in the middle of the chest, with cough, scraping, rawness and soreness.
Stitching pains in the chest.

Heart and Pulse

Region of heart: constriction; pressure; stitches.
Sensation like an electric shock, from heart toward front of neck.
Strong pulsation of the blood in the whole body, but especially about the heart, increased by every motion.
Palpitation of the heart: with anxiety; with nosebleed.
Pulse full and hard, somewhat accelerated in the morning slow during day and evening.

Outer Chest

Stinging in fleshy part of chest.
Pimples on the chest.

Neck and Back

Pain in nape of neck.
Stiffness of back of neck; also, with headache.
Seventh cervical vertebra sensitive, with burning pain; anæmia.
Eruption on the nape, dry, peeling in fine, mealy scales, without itching.
Unpainful swollen glands on side of neck.
Contracting pains in the back.
Weakness in back and loins on walking.
Sacral pains, with sensation of crawling and stitching.
Small of back aches, as if bruised or broken.
Numb pain, from the sacrum down the legs.
Pain in the os coccygis while urinating.

Upper Limbs

Shoulder and neck painful.
Rheumatic or burning pains especially in left shoulder.
Burning pressure beneath the armpit.
Jerking in the arms.
Arms feel "asleep".
Right upper arm sore, tender and swollen.
Herpes circinatus hard to the touch and wrinkled looking, itching terribly, in bend of the elbow.
Left hand becomes numb and like dead, with formication extending up the arm.
Cramp in the hand.
Horny callosities in the hands.
Pain in the thumb-joint, as if sprained.
Gouty swelling of the fingers.
Raw, moist places between the fingers.
Finger-nails thick, exfoliate, or black and rough, matrix inflamed, with soreness, throbbing and numbness; no suppuration.

Lower limbs

Excoriation between the legs.
Tearing, or bruised pains in the thighs.
Numbness of the thighs.
Stiff feeling in hollow of knee, as if tendons were too short.
Bruised pain in the knees.
Tetters in the hollow of the knees.
Cramp in the calves.
Restlessness in the legs.
Heaviness of the legs.
Great œdema of the limbs, chiefly the lower, which are very large, with profuse, constant watery exudation from the skin below the knees, epidermis exfoliated.
Ulcers on lower limbs, with acrid pus, dryness of skin and constipation.
Stitches in the heel, when putting it down.
Weakness of feet, cannot walk.
Callous ulcers of the feet.
Stiffness and contraction of the toes.
Gouty tearing in the toes.
Ulcers; or spreading blisters on the toes.
Thick and crippled toe-nails.

Limbs in General

Drawing pains in the limbs.
Tearing: in the feet and hands; in all the limbs.
Startings of the hands and feet.
Heaviness in limbs.
Limbs go "to sleep".
Hands and feet: either hot or cold.

Position, etc

Stiffness on first beginning to move.
Motion: 29, 40. Stepping: 20, 33. Walking: 31. Walking in open air: 4; in the wind: 10. Rising from bed: 23. Must jump from bed: 26. Sitting: 1, 20. Stooping: 2, 5. Must lie down: 2, 27. Lying: 19. Lying in bed: 6. Lying on affected side: 18. Reaching high: 23.

Nerves

Cataleptic condition, conscious, but without power to move or speak.
Tremulous sensation through the whole body.
Tired feeling.
Lassitude.
Weakness.
Exhaustion.
Prostration.

Sleep

Constant yawning.
Excessively tired and sleepy.
Sleepiness: during the day, must lie down; after dinner.
Light slumber at night.
Wandering fancies at night.
Nightly pains felt in sleep.
Cannot go to sleep till late.
Sleeplessness.
Starting in sleep.
Dreams: vivid; anxious; frightening; horrible; vexatious.

Time

Morning: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 16, 17, 23, 29, 40. Afternoon: 7, 16. Evening: 2, 5, 6, 7, 25, 33, 40. Night: 1, 5, 7, 10, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22, 27, 37, 40. After midnight: 26. Day: 37. Day or night: 23. Day and evening: 27, 29.

Temperature and Weather

Takes cold easily.
Warmth: 10. In bed: 33. Open air: 4, 5, 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilliness in the morning, in bed.
Chill and chilliness, most in the evening.
Chill worse after meals, better after drinking, better in open air.
Heat evening and night; also, with restlessness.
Sweats from the slightest motion.
Profuse night-sweat.
Sweat, often on front of body only.
Sweat stains yellow, is sour and offensive smelling, and frequently cold.
Entire inability to sweat.

Attacks

Full moon: 6.

Sides

Right: 3, 6, 18, 19, 32. Left: 3, 5, 6, 8, 18, 19, 22, 32, 33. Right to left: 8, 23.

Sensations

Great sensitiveness of internal parts.
Cramp-like sensations of various parts.
Numbness of various parts.

Tissues

Burning pain in an old cicatrix.
Emaciation of suffering parts.
Swelling and induration of the glands.
Œdematous complaints.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 9, 10, 20, 25, 32. Pressure: 18, 23.

Skin

Itching over various parts of body.
Violent itching and burning, with eruptions.
Eczema, with profuse serous exudations, in blondes inclined to obesity; also alternating with internal affections.
Itching blotches on various parts of the body, from which oozes a watery, sticky fluid.
Skin is not inclined to heal, ulcerates readily.
Old ulcers, with fetid pus, proud flesh, itching, stinging.
Old scars from ulcers.
Skin dry, inclined to crack.
See: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33.

Relationship

Complementary: Arsen., Caustic., Ferrum, Hepar.
Graphit. is antidoted by Acon. (for the cough), Arsen. (for the grief), Nux vom.
Graphit. antidotes: Arsen., Iodum, Rhus tox.
Graphit. follows well after Lycop.